Women's Basketball Heads to Kentucky for Sunday Matchup

By: Kaitlyn Gallaher, Athletics Communications

• TEXAS A&M NOTES
• KENTUCKY NOTES

LEXINGTON, Ky. The Texas A&M women's basketball team hits the road to face Kentucky on Sunday inside Memorial Coliseum at 11 a.m. CT.

Last Time Out
The Aggies (12-9, 2-7 SEC) were led by Kayla Wells' career-high 30 points to defeat Arkansas, 77-64, on Thursday. The victory marked head coach Gary Blair's 850th of his career, and Wells advanced to fifth all-time on the A&M scoring list, passing Danielle Gant (1,645). Other notable performances include Destiny Pitts who registered a season-high 12 rebounds, producing the second double-double of her season. Aaliyah Patty posted a career-best 19 rebounds and McKinzie Green played 16 minutes and scored six points to lead A&M off the bench.

Team Leaders
Wells leads the Aggies, having reached double digits every game this year. The Dallas native has averaged 17.0 points per game while scoring 10-or-more points in 85 games throughout her career. Jordan Nixon follows her, averaging 11.4 points per game while also dishing out 3.9 assists. Texas A&M is fifth in the country in 3-point field goal percentage, hitting 39.1% of its shots from deep.

Series
Sunday's match-up is the 13th all-time meeting against Kentucky (9-9, 2-4 SEC) with the Maroon & White leading the series, 7-5. The Aggies have won five of their last six meetings with the Cats. Kentucky is led by second-year head coach Kyra Elzy. On the court, UK is led by All-American Rhyne Howard who is one of the most prolific scorers in the country, averaging 20.4 points per contest.

How to Watch
Sunday's matchup will be televised on ESPN2 with live stats here. Additionally, radio listeners can tune in locally to 1150 AM/93.7 FM or worldwide through the 12th Man Mobile App with Tom Turbiville and Steve Miller on the call.

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Gig'em Aggies! I hope they come out with the same sense of urgency that they had Thursday night.

Thanks Rudy. I think ESPN is doing a very good job of getting most our games on a linear channel instead of only streaming which explains the noon game since on ESPN2.

Really need a good game plan to contain the Kentucky offense especially a certain someone!!!

I believe they start at 11:00?

I'd say we need a fast start and 4 steady quarters. When we get rattled we don't tend to have that fighting spirit to claw our way back.

Gig'em Aggies!

Looks like Jordan was a little shaken up after that hustle play along the sidelines.

That was a travel. Ugh. Make the call blue

10-16 Kentucky at the media timeout. Started well. Untimely turnovers have resulted in 6 transition points. Aggie ball

Roby is just so slow, she hurts the team on defense.

Ugh, turn over bug is hitting the team. They also look tired!

Turnovers turnovers turnovers. Absolutely killing this team. Not even forced. Just lazy dumb passes.

Then we throw up an air ball on offense!

15 to 26 at the end of one

As good as we looked on Thursday we look the absolute opposite today.

26-15 Kentucky after 1.

aggiedrjdub said:

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Turnovers turnovers turnovers. Absolutely killing this team. Not even forced. Just lazy dumb passes.

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Truer words never spoken -----

We gave up 26 points in the first quarter sheesh!!
We have to be the easiest team to drive on that I've ever seen and Kentucky isn't even that good of a team.

Atrocious defense. Such a slow team

Need to give Wells and Patty a breather, maybe put Jones and Green in for a little more quickness. Otherwise they need to slow it down offensively like they did against Arkansas.

Coach Blair may have a heart attack before this game ends.

We have gotten a few stops and then can't hit the broad side of a barn on the offensive end.

Yesmam Roby!!!

Woo Hoo, Roby got a rebound and a put back!

We seem to be climbing back into the lead.

26-20, Kentucky timeout. Kentucky ball.

Had our chances and could not get a bucket!

Wells seems to be rushing some of her shots

Back to turning the ball over on sloppy passes.

Made some stops. Could not score on the other end. 30-20 Kentucky. 1:47 left in the half.

They can only score when we turn the ball over
Edwards has doubled the post every time and not sure why we haven't picked up on that yet

Announcers just stated we have more turnovers than made field goals

A&M has more turnovers than made field goals says the announcer….sheesh!!

Just not a good half. We are a team that has to have our shots go in early. If they don't we start scrambling and have no idea how to make our way back into a game.

32-20 at the half. We scored 20 points in one half. Awful.

That was just an ugly half! As the announcers said not enough ball reversals, it looks like everyone is playing their own damn game on offense!

aggiedrjdub said:

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Just not a good half. We are a team that has to have our shots go in early. If they don't we start scrambling and have no idea how to make our way back into a game.

32-20 at the half. We scored 20 points in one half. Awful.

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Scrambling is a good word for what the offense looked like.

Our offense looks like a clueless scrambled mess. Really ugly first half.